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• Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Children, Emotional, People

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• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Movie, Inspiring, Casting

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• I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

  Michael Pollan

  Practice, Principles, Population

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.151, Penguin

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• Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

  Peter Pronovost

  Data, Missing, Quality

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• Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

  Peter Benchley

  Dark, Moon, Careers

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• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  Ed Markey

  Children, Population, Our Future

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• I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Believe, Thinking, Long

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• Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

  Amy Cuddy

  Thinking, Ideas, Race

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• Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

  Chris Hedges

  Past, Years, Humans

  Chris Hedges (2007). “What Every Person Should Know About War”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Healing, Conflict

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• Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Filled Out, Data, People

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• If guys feed off me, that's fine. But I'm going to play my way and I don't change. One hundred percent every single play, every single day. That's just me. And hopefully guys, especially the young guys, feed off of it and hopefully they learn how to be a professional and bring their 'A' game every day.

  Rodney Harrison

  Games, Play, Guy

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• Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Justice, Desire

  "World Food Day and the Challenge to Solve World Hunger and Protect the Planet" by John Bryant, Dr. Jason Clay, Lisa Moon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2016.

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• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Population, World

  "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity". Norman Borlaug's Nobel lecture in the auditorium of the Nobel Institute, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1970.

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• About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

  Barry Boehm

  Downtime, Bugs, Programming

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• Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

  Paul J. Zak

  Oxytocin, Generosity, Brain

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• Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Home, Evil, Criminals

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• Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, World, Pay

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• When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Car, Energy, Pay

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

  Steven Levitan

  Jobs, Technology, People

  "Lloyd Braun and Steven Levitan Live at D8". Liveblog, allthingsd.com. June 2, 2010.

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• It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface of what we’re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!

  Clifton Anderson

  Blessed, Average, Use

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• Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

  Uwe Boll

  Government, Germany, Shelter

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• According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Discovery, Revision

  Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.206, Penguin

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• Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

  Frank Luntz

  Thinking, Stronger, How You Feel

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